Published in Pediatrics on May 01, 2003
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The effect of mass administration of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine combined with artesunate on malaria incidence: a double-blind, community-randomized, placebo-controlled trial in The Gambia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2003) 1.69
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An evaluation of culture results during treatment for tuberculosis as surrogate endpoints for treatment failure and relapse. PLoS One (2013) 1.36
The relationship of acceptance or denial of HIV-status to antiretroviral adherence among adult HIV patients in urban Botswana. Soc Sci Med (2008) 1.36
Stable incidence rates of tuberculosis (TB) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative South African gold miners during a decade of epidemic HIV-associated TB. J Infect Dis (2003) 1.36
Low haemoglobin predicts early mortality among adults starting antiretroviral therapy in an HIV care programme in South Africa: a cohort study. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.30
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Restricted randomization of ZAMSTAR: a 2 x 2 factorial cluster randomized trial. Clin Trials (2008) 1.22
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Mapping of a novel susceptibility locus suggests a role for MC3R and CTSZ in human tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2008) 1.16
Variants in the SP110 gene are associated with genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.16
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Risk factors associated with positive QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and tuberculin skin tests results in Zambia and South Africa. PLoS One (2011) 1.15
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A national DNA bank in The Gambia, West Africa, and genomic research in developing countries. Nat Genet (2004) 1.13
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Commercial interferon gamma release assays compared to the tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in childhood contacts in the Gambia. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2010) 1.11
Gamma interferon responses induced by a panel of recombinant and purified mycobacterial antigens in healthy, non-mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated Malawian young adults. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol (2003) 1.11
High granulocyte/lymphocyte ratio and paucity of NKT cells defines TB disease in a TB-endemic setting. Tuberculosis (Edinb) (2009) 1.07
A novel HIV treatment model using private practitioners in South Africa. Sex Transm Infect (2012) 1.05
Cost-effectiveness of lumbar spine radiography in primary care patients with low back pain. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (2002) 1.02
A pivotal registration phase III, multicenter, randomized tuberculosis controlled trial: design issues and lessons learnt from the Gatifloxacin for TB (OFLOTUB) project. Trials (2012) 1.01
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Hepatitis B immunisation induces higher antibody and memory Th2 responses in new-borns than in adults. Vaccine (2004) 1.00
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The exposure of infants and children to carbon monoxide from biomass fuels in The Gambia: a measurement and modeling study. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2011) 0.94
Association of BMI category change with TB treatment mortality in HIV-positive smear-negative and extrapulmonary TB patients in Myanmar and Zimbabwe. PLoS One (2012) 0.92
Comparison of the prevalence of common bacterial pathogens in the oropharynx and nasopharynx of gambian infants. PLoS One (2013) 0.91
Descriptors of breathlessness in patients with cancer and other cardiorespiratory diseases. J Pain Symptom Manage (2002) 0.91
Discussing matters of sexual health with children: what issues relating to disclosure of parental HIV status reveal. AIDS Care (2009) 0.87
Folic acid treatment of Zambian children with moderate to severe malaria anemia. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2006) 0.86
Pregnancy incidence and correlates during the HVTN 503 Phambili HIV vaccine trial conducted among South African women. PLoS One (2012) 0.86
Variants of the CD40 ligand gene are not associated with increased susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africa. Immunogenetics (2003) 0.84
A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of atovaquone-proguanil vs. sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in the treatment of malarial anaemia in Zambian children. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 0.83
The effect of tuberculin skin test and BCG vaccination on the expansion of PPD-specific IFN-gamma producing cells ex vivo. Vaccine (2007) 0.83
A cross-site, comparative effectiveness study of an integrated HIV and substance use treatment program. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2010) 0.83
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Evaluation of the contribution of major T cell subsets to IFN-gamma production in TB infection by ELISPOT. Immunol Invest (2009) 0.82
HIV infection and chronic chest disease as risk factors for bacterial pneumonia: a case-control study. AIDS (2003) 0.81
Interleukin-8 polymorphism is not associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in the gambia. J Infect Dis (2004) 0.78
Risk factors for infection and disease in child contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a cross-sectional study. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.78